Warning: something in this process sets the mode of /tmp to 0700!
Restore the original mode as soon as possible!

perl5.00505 -MCPAN -eshell
install TJENNESS/File-Temp-0.16.tar.gz

Setup a distroprefs file for File::Copy::Recursive, ot apply the RT patch manually. The distroprefs file may be
found as DMUEY.File-Copy-Recursive.yml in the distroprefs subdir of the CPAN.pm distribution.

Finally, the following modules are installed (version on my system in parenthesis)

CPAN (1.92_51 or 1.9203)

warnings::compat (0.04)

File::Temp (0.18 + patch on RT); TJENNESS/File-Temp-0.16.tar.gz works without a patch

Test::Reporter (1.36)

Net::SMTP (2.31)

Time::HiRes (1.9708)

Pod::Parser (1.35)

File::Copy::Recursive (0.35 + patch on RT); patch also on CPAN in ANDK/patches/File-Copy-Recursive-0.35-SREZIC-01.patch.gz

CPAN::Reporter (0.99_15)

If podlators-2.0.5 is installed, then you have to remove .../lib/5.00505/Pod/Text.pm from the core perl library, so that
the version from site_perl is used. This is necessary because a newer .../bin/pod2text is also installed with
podlators and needs also the current module version.

After this you can also install Module::Build 0.2807 (not the latest version).

The latest usable versions of some popular modules for perl 5.00505:

Tk 800.024

MIME::Base64 2.23

HTML::Parser 3.45

Digest::MD5 2.33

latest LWP has two test failures, but maybe these are rather harmless?

Expect 1.15

unfortunately neither YAML nor YAML::Syck pass tests with 5.00505, but one could use CPAN.pm distroprefs in the Data::Dumper format